Thursday, 4 March 2010

New Mirror and fabulous antique toile de jouy...

As promised here is a photo of my new mirror, this shape is called oeil de boeuf in French which translates to bull's eye. It is called this because of the shape..........

And here is a photo of my new mirror, in our stairwell. Merci Mr FF for taking the time to hang it for me on his return from a hard days work building.

While I had the camera out, I thought that I would show you a photo of a chair that I recently bought, I love the lions head details on each corner of the chair and the tapestry is so pretty and looks almost medieval.

Today I had a visit from Madame J, my fabulous fabric lady - I call her this as she is an expert of antique french fabric.

Today she bought me a couple of fabulous items, including this fabric 18th century toile de jouy pelmet.

You will recall that I had a smaller one which was snapped up by a client who lives in Germany.

This is quite large (180 cms Lx 63 cms W/71" L x 25 " W) and is the last piece available. It was hung in a local chateau and is great condition considering it's age.Note it is backed with another fabric which has come away but this is easily fixed by a little bit of hand sewing.

I love the detail of the older toile de jouy fabrics, this is something that is missing from the modern day reproductions.

It would look fabulous in a childs room with white voile underneath, oh so french.It is 100 euros, a small price to pay for such a fabulous piece of history.

Your new mirror looks fabulous in the stairwell Leeann! Your chair is also gorgeous, I love that detail in the chair and in the fabric. Wow - that toile de jouy is amazing, how incredible to be able to purchase something so beautiful and old!! I hope it goes to a beautiful new home. ~ Tina x

That is fascinating to see an up close image showing the detail of the older toile. It's a very lovely fabric on it's own, but knowing it's 18th century is amazing. Your bulls eye mirror looks wonderful too. ~Lili

Hi Leeann. LOVE that pelmet. Been in such the quilted pelmet (18th century) mood lately. I have a similar mirror...huge...hanging in my tiny office (which makes it look even bigger). We just don't have enough mansard roof lines and zinc oeil de boeuf's in California!